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MEXICO IN 1827
SECTION VI.
RETURN TO ENGLAND BY THE UNITED STATES.—CHARACTER OF THE CREOLES FEELINGS OF THE COUNTRY WITH REGARD TO THE PRESENT SYSTEM—CONCLUSION.
I passed three months in the Capital, after my return from the North; at the expiration of which time, my successor, Mr. Pakenham, having arrived, I set out for Veracruz, in company with Mr. Rocafuerte, and Captain Vernon, of His Majesty's sloop Primrose, who was commissioned to convey us to England, with the ratified copy of the Treaty, which had just been approved of by the Chambers.
We quitted Mexico on the 23d of April, and proceeded by Otūmbă, Āpăn, Piedras Negras, and Vĭrēyĕs, to Pĕrōtĕ, Mrs. Ward being no longer in a state either to travel on horseback, or to support the violent motion of a coach, in crossing the mountains between Mexico and La Puebla. At Jalapa,
